''Twas the Thursday before Christmas

[britta]

What's up today? UOs?

[britta]

DS1 was up pre-6:30 this morning. He had been doing really well sleeping until after 7, but he seems to be settling into his old ways. Dammit, I just wanna shower and get ready for the day in peace!! Although H forgot to turn on his white noise machine last night, so that may have something to do with it too. He will be going bed early tonight for sure. H is on call, so it's just me for dinner and bedtime, plus his Christmas party at school is this afternoon, so def a recipe for "Mom's over it. Night night."

My family is coming tomorrow for the weekend. It's the only weekend we could do our Christmas between everyone's work schedule and my sister's weekends with the kids. Otherwise we'd have to wait until 1/14. So. Today I need to clean in preparation. Strip the beds, vacuum, mop, clean bathrooms. Tomorrow we'll need to run out for last minute dinner/breakfast things and I'll probably bake.

[Deleted]

I have a dentist appt today. I got ALL of my wrapping done last night. After the dentist i need to head to petsmart to get treats for the fur babies for Christmas. Then vacuum and mop before DS gets home from daycare.

[vavavictoria]

britta sorry for the early rising toddler. Mine never sleeps in when I want her to.

I'm up feeding C. She has had a few decent nights of sleep in a row so I'm feeling hopeful we are acclimatizing to sleep on a flat surface. She went to bed a bit later than usual so I'm hoping even though it's 815, she will go back down and I can drink some coffee and eat breakfast without a baby to entertain. We will see.

Plan for the day is to clean my house, go eat lunch with my dad at our Chinese restaurant that is closing for good by the end of the year and then dinner out with another couple that we hang out with all the time. They always come see us and are so flexible and great with dealing with our kid dominated schedules. But they are having a baby in march and we will have to return the favor. I'm either going to use a lot of baby sitting favors with family or my kids are going to learn to sleep at their house pretty quickly.

[jwinct]

Good morning. I'm back at work after yesterday's unexpected day off, which turned out to be a great day. DS loves being out and about, so he was a happy, smiling, talking fool while we were out grocery shopping and running errands, charming the pants off of women and men alike! He sat and smiled and talked to me while I was wrapping presents and I swear he was laughing at South Park because he kept craning his head around to look at the TV. (Haha)
He slept well last night 7pm to 12:45am, ate and went right back down, then sleep until 5am. I didn't think he was going to go back to sleep at that point because he was all smiles and talking after his bottle, but he did and slept until after I got out of the shower. I was pretty happy. I elevated the mattress last night, so hopefully that helped with his congestion.

[becole]

Baby had his longest stretch ever at 9 weeks old. Slept 9-4, then to 7.

He only poops like every 3-4 days. So weird.

I'm watching batsman v superman. I need to make sure all the presents are a go and pay bills.

I love having maternity leave this time of year. I've found it pretty relaxing since the toddler goes to daycare most days.

[hikingmama222]

DD has her 4 year well checkup this morning and I'm seeing my doc to discuss birth control. Still haven't decided what I want to go with. I'll ask to do a quick weight check for DS since he dropped quite a few percentiles between his 6 week and 2 month visit. Just curious to see where he's at now.

Cleaning, baking, wrapping are all on the agenda for the rest of the day.

[sanibel21]

Just house chores and lazing with the littles this am. My mom is coming this afternoon. I haven't decided if I'm just going to hang out or go do something. I still have some wrapping to do. My brother is flying in tonight. We're hosting my tomorrow night and my mom Christmas night. Other than that not sure what else. I'm still recovering from being sick it feels like.
DD1 is so good when DD2 is sleeping and I'm giving her all my attention. It actually gives me dread and stomach ache when DD2 starts waking up or crying or I start wanting to do house chores. Because then I know DD1 is going to turn into a nightmare. I hate feeling like that. I feel like the only time I enjoy DD2 is when DD1 is napping or in bed for the night. I feel so guilty.

[iwantbacon]

I am running errands with DH and DS2 this morning. H lost a bunch of weight during my 3rd tri and now needs a bunch of new clothes. Good bye, $$$$.

I am over Christmas but really want to take the boys to see Santa. Maybe tomorrow it will work out.

[adouces06]

Morning! Got half of my baking done yesterday, so I have a bit more to do today. I also have my work yankee swap, so DD and I are heading in for that while DS is at daycare.
DD is one of those babies who poops like 5 times a day, but yesterday she didn't poop once. I could tell she was uncomfortable, but nothing was helping. Bicycle kicks, massages, windi- nothing worked. She pooped a little this morning, but I'm waiting for a doozy and really hoping it doesn't happen at my work.

[jwinct]

@holachica - Oh no, I hope everyone feels better! You may have had the stomach bug, even though you didn't get physically ill. One of my friends just had that happen this weekend while one of her sons had the stomach bug.

adouces06 - Have fun at your yankee swap!
I was psyched at what I ended up with at mine last weekend, a big bottle of a Trillium Double IPA that I've never had before. I'm sure you're familiar with that brewery! 

[eponine1007]

At a boobie screening appointment and then lunch with my brother and sister in law. Husband is being a trooper taking care of our little one outside the doctors office.

[eponine1007]

I love yankee swap adouces06! Have fun!

[britta]

I'm having trouble getting motivated to do all the things I listed I need to do. 🙄 Doesn't help that DS2 is a little cranky today.

Right now he's practicing tummy time. He's held his head up pretty well a couple times, but mostly he just wants to eat his play mat. Or hands.

It feels slow in here lately. Maybe everyone is prepping for the holidays?

[sanibel21]

I totally forgot to print pics and buy frames for people like I have been wanting to!! Oy...

[macaronmama]

DH and I were supposed to go see Fantastic Beasts tonight for date night because I'm a huge HP fan and been really looking forward to seeing it. None of our locals theaters are playing it at a reasonable hour if at all in the evening. Super bummed. MIL is making it worse by basically calling me a baby for being disappointed and dwelling on it briefly. Excuse me if I'm not as excited about our backup option (Rogue One). I've been waiting a while to see FB and now most likely won't get to see it in theater.

[smallpotato]

After 3 straight nights of 5-6 hour stretches, G was back to 3 hour stretches last night. Still not bad, but I was so spoiled the last few nights. MH is at work and N is at school. I got the last of my wrapping done and have laundry going. I have to pack bags for the boys and me for the weekend later. I may try to go get diapers and pull-ups to
bring with us before picking N up, but I'll have to see how G is. He's been wanting to eat every two hours in the evenings the last few days.

[becole]

Dec 22, 2016 12:04:52 GMT -5 sanibel21 said:

I totally forgot to print pics and buy frames for people like I have been wanting to!! Oy...

I have yet to put baby's footprint on an ornament.

[penguin129]

Dec 22, 2016 12:04:52 GMT -5 sanibel21 said:

I totally forgot to print pics and buy frames for people like I have been wanting to!! Oy...

Mine are printing now. Do you have a Walgreens nearby? 25% off everything and you can pick it up the same day.

[penguin129]

Dec 22, 2016 12:34:19 GMT -5 becole said:

Dec 22, 2016 12:04:52 GMT -5 sanibel21 said:

I totally forgot to print pics and buy frames for people like I have been wanting to!! Oy...

I have yet to put baby's footprint on an ornament.

I need to do my ornaments. Prints are printing now. I do fingerprints on them.

[penguin129]

I had a really rough start to the day. I started getting panicky about the appt I'm at now (I'm in the waiting room) so I emptied and loaded the dishwasher. I deal with stress by cleaning. HL started crying and I took 5 mins to finish. H woke up really mad because she was crying for so long. She needed a diaper change. I like having him home, but it is so hard sometimes. Don't they tell you it's ok if the baby cries for 5 mins or so?? I felt like such a bad mom.

[smallpotato]

I have a handprint ornament for G I haven't done yet. It's actually left over from when N was a baby, but I never did it. I also got his 1st Christmas ornament from the Disney store in the mail that I need to put his name and the year on. I'm going to wait until after Christmas to print pics for people.

[penguin129]

Dec 22, 2016 12:47:19 GMT -5 smallpotato said:

I have a handprint ornament for G I haven't done yet. It's actually left over from when N was a baby, but I never did it. I also got his 1st Christmas ornament from the Disney store in the mail that I need to put his name and the year on. I'm going to wait until after Christmas to print pics for people.

Lol! I have the same one from AG.

[penguin129]

H is home with the girls. I'm waiting at my psychiatrist appointment. I told H I'll be out a while because I have to make returns at Target and Ross and pick up pictures at Walgreens. I might also get a haircut. My ends are leftover from the last time I dyed my hair and it is driving me crazy. On top of that it is 3 days before Christmas and the snowbirds are here. Traffic is terrible. It still isn't as bad as my commute to Philadelphia was when I worked there.

[jwinct]

Dec 22, 2016 12:47:05 GMT -5 penguin129 said:

I had a really rough start to the day. I started getting panicky about the appt I'm at now (I'm in the waiting room) so I emptied and loaded the dishwasher. I deal with stress by cleaning. HL started crying and I took 5 mins to finish. H woke up really mad because she was crying for so long. She needed a diaper change. I like having him home, but it is so hard sometimes. Don't they tell you it's ok if the baby cries for 5 mins or so?? I felt like such a bad mom.

I'm sorry, but I want to punch your H in the throat for being mad about that. It's okay for babies to cry once in a while. You are a great mom! I hope your day gets better. I saw your other posts - you have a lot to do, so enjoy your time to yourself! 

[britta]

penguin129 hold the phone. Was he mad because he got woken up or because she was crying? Either way, I'm with jwinct. If that was MH, I would have, at the very least, rolled my eyes at him. Most likely I would have had some very...probably not nice words for him.

But I digress. Yes, it's ok for babies to cry sometimes. I mean, they're babies. That's what they do right? I wouldn't be able to function as a parent if DS2 was never allowed to cry. On nights when H is on call or late in the OR and I'm doing dinner/bath/bedtime myself, DS2 cries for...a lot longer than that sometimes. I'm only one person and there are other people/things that need my attention.

[smallpotato]

penguin129, I'm with everyone else about YH's reaction. He could have gotten up to check on her if the crying was getting to him. You are a great mom and should not feel bad about letting her cry every now and then. I hope your appointment went well, and enjoy the time alone.

[jwinct]

Oh, I thought of an UO:

I think Peanuts/Charlie Brown specials are boring and I think the kids are basically a bunch of assholes. (DD1 asked me last year what "bitch" meant, after seeing it as a sticker on someone's car, and I said, "Lucy from the Charlie Brown shows is a bitch."

[vavavictoria]

Dec 22, 2016 12:34:19 GMT -5 becole said:

Dec 22, 2016 12:04:52 GMT -5 sanibel21 said:

I totally forgot to print pics and buy frames for people like I have been wanting to!! Oy...

I have yet to put baby's footprint on an ornament.

I tried with my toddler the other day and it's was a pain in the butt. She wanted to destroy everything and I don't like how they turned out. I am not a creative person so lesson learned to not leave my comfort zone. Lol.

[becole]

Dec 22, 2016 13:56:50 GMT -5 vavavictoria said:

Dec 22, 2016 12:34:19 GMT -5 becole said:

I have yet to put baby's footprint on an ornament.

I tried with my toddler the other day and it's was a pain in the butt. She wanted to destroy everything and I don't like how they turned out. I am not a creative person so lesson learned to not leave my comfort zone. Lol.

I did one for DS1s first Christmas and I'll do one for this babe as well but that's it! Not one every year- no!